Dreamaticus knows no limits with trips beyond the known universe and our occasional experiments with time travel.
Beyond our universe
- Diagon Alley in A bendy bus trip to Diagon Alley but Harry Potter nowhere to be seen (Rousse)
- Fairyland in Belle is away with the fairies
- Hobbiton in A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)
- Middle-earth in A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)
- Outer space in Preparations for a run in outer space; Space travel, trains and boats (Belle)
- Second Life in Kevin McCloud advises Rousse on housing law
- The Shire in A trip to Middle-earth, the Shire and Hobbiton (Rousse)
- Trumpton in Belle’s bad hair day
Time travel
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- Rousse in time warp trouble In October 2010 Rousse travels back to 1982
- Rousse’s reunion In November 2010 Rousse travels forward to July 2011
- Time travel with a drum and bass soundtrack (Belle) Belle travels back three hours and has the opportunity to prevent a death
- Belle cooks Rousse’s bacon and applauds Princess Diana Belle travels back a few minutes so that she can enjoy Princess Diana’s wedding procession for a second time
- Belle, Bonnie and Clyde Belle fights crime by travelling through time
- Time travel by train and a deadly secret unveiled (Rousse) Rousse hopes to compare 2011 train services with those of her undergraduate days by travelling back to circa 1982 at York railway station
- Gordon Brown’s sexuality questioned by single straight man (Rousse) Rousse finds clues to a crime on a trip back to a wet week in December a couple of years ago
- Time travel to family troubles (Belle) Belle goes back to the Edwardian era to sort out her mischievous step-children
- Illuminated underwear and time travel (Rousse) Rousse discovers how to be in two places at the same time across time zones
- Time-travelling Rousse wins lottery jackpot Rousse cheats the system by crossing time-zones to grab the big prize
- Time-travelling aunt fulfils duties as a godparent (Rousse) Rousse visits her teenage nephew and niece in their younger incarnations
- Alan Garner time travels (Belle) Back in her childhood, Belle hosts a visit by Alan Garner
- News of Michael Jackson’s death takes time to register in the 1970s (Rousse) Back in 1975 Rousse shocks her new boyfriend with news of e-mail, royal divorce, and Michael Jackson’s rise and fall.
- Rousse avoids rubbish job Rousse time-travels to 1982 where she does all she can to ensure that she isn’t sent litter-picking
- Time-travelling Rousse misses several photo opportunities and breaks a promise Rousse time-travels from January 2012 back a few weeks to early December 2011 to get a good photograph, and then finds that she has accidentally travelled forward to the Chinese new year
- Time-travelling Rupert Grint (as Ron Weasley) greets Rousse in the Kingdom of Fife Rousse discovers the 13-year old Rupert Grint with all his Weasley brothers in Aberdour
- Young “Arthur Weasley” assists in railway murder hunt (Rousse) Rousse stumbles across a very young Mark Williams (the actor who plays Arthur Weasley) at a murder enquiry at Worcester railway station
- Chronology change at the British Council and the Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Award (Rousse) Major landmarks move location, Rousse falls victim to a dodgy watch, and new technology facilitates time travel – all thanks to chronology change
- Time travelling robot dancers (Belle) Belle visits Lewisham High Street in the 1970s to watch a display of robot dancers
- 1980s fashion disaster looks forward to her birthday (Rousse) Rousse returns to her undergraduate days and dresses for the occasion.
- A time travel trip to the Isle of Lewis (Rousse) Rousse pops back to her favourite guest house to check it out at the turn of the century.
- Time-travelling academic gives conflicting advice (Rousse) One of Rousse’s colleagues appears in the present as his past self.
- Back to Online 1997 (Rousse) Rousse lands at London Olympia at the height of the dot com boom.
- Time travel to the 1960s, a meeting with Phil Davis, and a stolen bracelet (Rousse) Rousse explains the emergence of the Internet to an incredulous 1960s audience.
- Hugh Jackman hosts 2020 tech movers and shakers event (Rousse) Rousse and her pals meet Hugh Jackman at a tech event in California in 2020 to sign their autographs for the former actor’s (now a tech guru) latest book.
- Radiation transforms terrier into reptile (Rousse) TPR travels back in time to prevent a dog being exposed to radiation and turning into a yellow lizard
- A work affair avoided (Rousse) Rousse, her depressive boyfriend and their colleagues, attend a time travel party
- Making a doctor’s appointment in 1989 (Rousse) Rousse tries to book a visit to a medical practice using a technology that she does not yet own in 1989
- Almost sacked in the City (Rousse) Rousse returns to 2006
- 1980s fashion fail (Rousse) Rousse despairs when she observes late 1980s fashion in situ
- Butter rent and Alice the drunk in medieval France (Rousse) Rousse spends the third year of her French degree in medieval France
- Self-catering apartments in Edinburgh, with dogs (Rousse) Rousse surprises her American friend JG in Edinburgh, and confuses her with a mention of a technology of the future
- Life as a Victorian student (Belle) Now a man, Belle wins a place at the University of Oxford in the 1890s
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